World War II veterans take to the skies for dream flights
Kenneth Schrammeck, 98, took to the skies for a flight in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26,2021, for the first time since training in one as a Navy aviator during World War II. The flight was part of nonprofit Dream Flights' Operation September Freedom, which honors World War II veterans. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Kenneth Schrammeck, 98, beams from the front seat of a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Kenneth Schrammeck, 98, looks to the skies shortly before he and Dream Flights pilot Clint Cawley take off in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. The flight was part of nonprofit Dream Flights' Operation September Freedom, which honors World War II veterans. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Kenneth Schrammeck, 98, took to the skies for a flight in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug.. 26, 2021, for the first time since training in one as a Navy aviator in World War II. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Arnold Peterson, a 99-year-old Navy veteran, received a flight in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, as part of nonprofit Dream Flights' Operation September Freedom, which honors World War II veterans. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Arnold Peterson, a 99-year-old Navy veteran, adds his signature to the dozens of others from World War II veterans who have received a flight in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane as part of nonprofit Dream Flights' Operation September Freedom. Dream Flights gave flights to three veterans at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A young Arnold Peterson looks up from the deck of the destroyer USS Healy during World War II. Peterson received a flight in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane at Glacier International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, as part of nonprofit Dream Flights' Operation September Freedom, which honors World War II veterans. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Navy veteran Kenneth Schrammeck was beaming Thursday as he slipped into the front seat of a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane just outside the Jet Center at Glacier International Airport.
At 98 ½ years old, the former Navy aviator never dreamed he would once again take to the air in the same model of plane he had trained in during the height of World War II, much less in the instructor's position in the front seat...
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